6/22/24, 2:22 PM Fundamentals of semiconductor devicesFundamentals of semiconductor devices - Course

By Prof. Digbijoy N. Nath | IISc Bangalore

Learners enrolled: 5068 | Exam registration: 956

Summary
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Course Status : Completed

Course Type : Core

Duration : 12 weeks

Category : Electrical, Electronics

and Communications
Engineering

VLSI design

Electronic Materials

Credit Points : 3

ABOUT THE COURSE: Level : Undergraduate

This course seeks to cover the basics of semiconductor devices including the physics of Start Date : 22 Jan 2024
energy bands, doping and carrier statistics and transport leading up to the understanding
End Date : 12 Apr 2024
of common semiconductor devices including p-n junctions and their applications, BJTs
and MOSFETs. The course will also give a flavour of the basics of compound Enrollment Ends
semiconductors and their devices, and also touch base with opto-electronic devices such 05 Feb 2024
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as solar cells, photodetectors and LEDs. The course will ensure that undergraduates,
college teachers and other interested audience with no background in semiconductors Exam
are able to grasp the content. In parallel, the course will consistently seek to engage the
Registration 16 Feb 2024
audience by giving real-life examples pertaining to the content, and also seek to calibrate
the content with respect to practical and commercial technologies which are all around Ends :
us and which use semiconductor devices. There will be enough food for thought even for
Exam Date : 20 Apr 2024 IST
advanced learners such as PhD students and active researchers.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Importance of semiconductor devices and their diverse applications.

Introduction to semiconductors, concept of energy bands and how bands form. Effective
mass of electrons, E-k diagram. Concept of holes. Concept of Fermi level, Fermi-Dirac
distribution. Doping (extrinsic & intrinsic semiconductor), density of states.
Week 2 : Equilibrium electron-hole concentration, temperature-dependence. Carrier
scattering and mobility, velocity saturation, Drift-diffusion transport
Week 3 : Excess carrier decay & recombination, charge injection, continuity equation,
quasi-Fermi level
Week 4 : p-n junction: static behaviour (depletion width, field profile), p-n junction under
forward & reverse bias, current equations, generation-recombination current and
reference to typical devices.
Week 5 : Zener and avalanche breakdown, Capacitance-voltage profiling,
metal/semiconductor junction – Ohmic and Schottky contacts, reference to device
applications.
Week 6 : MOS capacitor, charge/field/energy bands, accumulation, inversion, C-V (high
and low frequencies), deep depletion, Real MOS cap: Flat-band & threshold voltage,
Si/SiO2 system.
Week 7 : MOSFET: structure and operating principle, derivation of I-V, gradual channel
approximation, substrate bias effects, sub-threshold current and gate oxide breakdown.
Control of threshold voltage, short channel effects. Moore’s Law and CMOS scaling
Week 8 : Introduction to compound semiconductors & alloys, commonly used compound
semiconductors, heterostructure band diagrams and basics of MODFET & HEMT,
introduction to quantum well, applications of heterostructure device technologies
Week 9 : BJT: working principle, DC parameters and current components, base transport
factor, Early Effect, charge control equation & current gain, need for HBT. Applications of
BJTs/HBTs in real-life.
Week 10 : (Basics of) - transistors for high-speed logic, transistors for high frequency
(RF), transistors for high power switching, transistors for memories, transistors for low

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 i. Solid State Electronic Devices, by Ben Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee, Prentice Hall.
ii. Introduction to Semiconductor Materials and Devices, by M. S. Tyagi, Wiley
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Publications.

Instructor bio

Digbijoy N. Nath completed his B.E. (Hons) in Electrical and

Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani (Rajasthan) and PhD in
Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus
specializing in gallium nitride based semiconductor devices. He
has been as Assistant Professor at Centre for Nano Science and
Engineering (CeNSE) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore since Aug 2014. His research interests lie in wide band
Prof. Digbijoy N. gap semiconductor devices for high power & RF
Nath electronics/deep-UV opto-electronics. He has authored/co-
IISc Bangalore authored 46 publications so far. He has been teaching a
postgraduate level course Semiconductor Devices and IC
Technology for PhD/Masters students at IISc for four years while
he has also started a new advanced-level course titled
Semiconductor Opto-electronics and Photovoltaics (jointly with
another faculty member).

Course certificate

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